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Normally when you’re kicking back in a prestige limo, there’s a well-dressed, professional chauffeur up front in the driver’s seat. That's definitely not the case if the vehicle in question is the Mercedes-Benz S500 Intelligent Drive...

The ultra-long-wheelbase Mercedes-Maybach S-Class has been unveiled simultaneously on the opening days of the Los Angeles and Guangzhou motor shows.
The Maybach version of the popular S-Class features a 3365mm wheelbase and an overall length of 5453mm — that's up 200mm and 207mm, respectively, on than the regular long-wheelbase S-Class...

Mercedes-Benz will expand the S-Class range, both literally and figuratively, with the new ultra-long-wheelbase Mercedes-Maybach S-Class, which will be unveiled at next week's LA auto show.
The new Mercedes-Maybach S-Class will feature a longer wheelbase than the current LWB S-Class, which measures 3165mm between the front and rear wheels...

Removing the petrol engine from the Mercedes-Benz S-Class equation leaves you with a whole lot of nothing.
When the Mercedes-Benz S500 plug-in hybrid limousine arrives on our shores late next year (matching the $285,000 pricetag of the S500 petrol-only V8) one of the quietest cars in the world will become even more hush...

Further details of the all-new Mercedes-Benz S500 Plug-in Hybrid have been revealed, with the brand's first plug-in model offering plenty of tech and mountains of power.
The S500 Plug-in Hybrid combines a twin-turbo petrol V6 engine with an 80kW electric motor. The combination offers up maximum power of 325kW and maximum torque of 650Nm, and enables the 5...

Daimler has released a video of its Mercedes-Benz S500 Intelligent Drive test vehicle completing a 100km autonomous drive through Germany.
The trip undertaken by this smarter-than-average Mercedes-Benz was from Mannheim to Pforzheim, along a route similar to the one used by Bertha Benz in the Benz Patent Motorwagen in 1888...

Not since 1961 has Mercedes-Benz offered its top-range vehicle as a convertible, but that will all change when the S-Class convertible is unveiled sometime next year.
The Mercedes-Benz W111 convertible made its debut at the 1961 Frankfurt Autoshow and became the last of what we now refer to as S-Class models to be offered with an open roof...

Although it launched locally late last year, the only Mercedes-Benz S-Class available to drive was the entry-level S350 turbo diesel.
The S350's 190kW, 620Nm 3.0-litre V6 delivers a super sweet-spot of performance and economy, and the $215,000 asking price seems fair given the indulgent interior and benchmark ride quality and refinement...

The all-new Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe will feature a world-first curve tilting function that claims to allow it to lean into corners like a motorcyclist.
The ultra-luxury two-door will make its public debut at next month’s Geneva motor show before joining its S-Class sedan sibling in Australian showrooms in the final quarter of 2014...

The launch of a new-generation Mercedes-Benz S-Class has always been regarded as an insight into the future of the automotive world – and a sneak peek into what will eventually become standard equipment on everyday cars of nearly all manufacturers.
Times have changed, though...

Daimler has received more than 30,000 orders for its flagship Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan, less than three months after the model was launched.
Mercedes-Benz Cars head of sales and marketing Ola Kaellenius said a statement, “The new S-Class is already back in the lead for new vehicle registrations in Germany and neighbouring European countries...

The concept Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe has been unveiled at the Frankfurt motor show.
Even in concept form, the S-Class Coupe differentiates itself from its production-car sedan stablemate with a lower and larger ‘Avantgarde’-style grille with inserts that closely mimic that of an A-Class, more pronounced bonnet lines and a completely renewed rear end...

A Mercedes-Benz S-Class has driven without driver input for a total of 125km through city streets and arterials in Germany.
In order to highlight future self-driving technologies, Mercedes-Benz chose the route that that Bertha Benz (wife of company founder and engineer Carl Benz) took in August 1888 between Mannheim and Pforzheim to demonstrate the long-distance potential of the automobile...

Specifications for the Mercedes-Benz S500 Plug-in Hybrid have been officially released ahead of its debut at the Frankfurt motor show on September 10.
As revealed to CarAdvice at the Mercedes-Benz S-Class international launch in July, the S500 Plug-in Hybrid combines an electric motor with the 245kW/480Nm 3...

Eerie though it is, the Mercedes-Benz S-Class can see things before its driver.
A total 28 cameras, radars and sensors surround the sixth-generation S-Class, some of which are responsible for a duo of world-first technologies – Magic Body Control, where the windshield camera reads the road ahead and adjusts the dampers as it hits bumps; and Night View Assist Plus, which in the dark highlights pedestrians and animals in red on the colour display and flashes pedestrians only (animals get scared, apparently) with a particular strand of headlight beam...

The Mercedes-Benz S500 Plug-in Hybrid has been shown ahead of its official debut at the Frankfurt motor show in September.
CarAdvice and other Australian media were among the first to see the S500 Plug-in Hybrid, which in long-wheelbase test-car form was rolled out for the first time at the Mercedes-Benz S-Class launch in Toronto, Canada – curiously, earlier waves of foreign media were not shown the car...

A brochure for the Mercedes-Benz S-Class has been leaked online, revealing both images and details about the all-new model ahead of its official reveal later this week.
Three engines are listed in the specifications page of the German Mercedes-Benz S-Class brochure, which was first published on Germancarforum, two of which carry-over from the current S-Class range...

The all-new Mercedes-Benz S-Class has been teased in a video, just days before its official reveal at a special event in Germany.
Highlighting the grille, headlights and interior details of the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the teaser video follows the accidental leaking of the first official exterior image earlier this month and official images of the sixth-generation luxury car’s lavish interior...

The first official exterior image of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class has been inadvertently revealed on the manufacturer's Austrian website.
The image – accidently uploaded overnight and subsequently removed by Mercedes-Benz – gives us an entirely unhindered look at the front-end of the sixth-generation luxury flagship ahead of its official unveiling on May 15...

The next-generation 2013 Mercedes-Benz S-Class is set to bring new safety technologies to the automotive world, just as its predecessors have done in the past.
With the implementation of Pre-Safe in the S-Class more than a decade ago, Mercedes-Benz introduced a collision avoidance technology that has since filtered down to the entire range...